Monthly Archives: April 2014

The heretic

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam (Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)” Can you bind a mind easy as you burn books or flesh, or is what’s real deeper … Continue reading →

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for GGM

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

who will bring me butterflies now in this time of spring peepers and crocuses before anything opens? I will watch for you and maybe see something very much like an angel but drunk and dirty whose prayer shakes a fist at … Continue reading →

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spring happens

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Forget calendars Forget light, measured in axial slant or day length spring unfolds and is less calculation and more the yellow crocuses shout quietly under this kitchen window where I dreamed them expected but never exactly planned

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How to Lose Followers

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Ah, I have done this. I have disappeared for months–not because I don’t want to be all over this incredible community of writers, reading everything, because I do. Unfortunately, that part of my blogging life will not likely come back … Continue reading →

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mother wisdom

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Don’t look at the sun she said; something that holy, stretched from the star that feeds us is hungry for vision, so starved for eyes the sheer memory of that light will be a shadow that burns forever   ***the NaPoWriMo … Continue reading →

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daisy my eyes

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

daisy my eyes so they bloom summer the way plants know it unseeing mirrors of petal and stigma reflecting sun

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NaPoWriMo Day 5: A Tribute to Buffalo Bill

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

There are lots of poets from Buffalo but unlike the Bills we are not defunct We who make over words used to sing to dance to joy to make a red unicycle ride out of form to take a ? … Continue reading →

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